Sunday, June 5, 2016

How shall we discover the nature of the mind i.e., its ultimate cause, or the noumenon of which it is a manifestation?

Devotee:  How shall we discover the nature of the mind i.e., its ultimate cause, or the noumenon of which it is a manifestation?

Ramana Maharishi:  Arranging thoughts in the order of value, the ‘I’ thought is the all important thought.  The second and the third persons do not appear except to the first person.  Trace, then, the ultimate cause of ‘I’ or personality. The ‘I’ idea arises to an embodied ego and should be related to a body or organism. Has it a location in the body or a special relation to any particular spot  Thought-life is seen to centre round the brain and the spinal-cord which in turn are fed by the blood circulating in them, carrying food and air duly mixed up which are transformed into nerve matter. Thus the mind may be regarded as the manifestation of vital force which again may be conceived as residing the Heart.

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